The two asked for a private room to talk, but Shen Ping did not follow, but drank tea downstairs.
When the guy served the tea and the fruit, Zhao Di made a gesture of "please use", and then took the tea cup and covered her face with her sleeves and drank.
She was borrowing something to drink tea to hide her inner complexity, but she didn't know that Shen Zhi was no better than her.
His eyes have been abruptly staying on Zhao Di's face. These ten years have been too long and too long, so long that the memory that he thought was very clear was only vague when he thought about it seriously.
"Have you seen enough?"
"Sulan, are you okay?"
The two voices sounded almost in unison, but one was full of anger, the other was full of longing, and even many things that even Shen Zhi didn't understand.
"I'm fine." In the end, Zhao Di was the first to speak out. She pursed her lips and said stiffly, "Besides, my name is not Sulan. I've changed my name back to my original name."
Shen Zhi was a little disappointed and a little lost: "Yeah, you changed your name, and changed it back to your original name."
Sulan was actually the name that Shen Zhi gave to Zhao Di at the time. At that time, Zhao Di was just a low-level rough maid in Shen's house, doing heavy work and having a name with a strong local flavor. The girls stand out from the crowd.
It's not that there isn't a good-looking girl in the Shen residence, even Shen Zhi doesn't know why this girl is caught in the eye.
Is it because she was bullied, but she was very stubborn, or she knew that if she was not protected, she would end up in the hands of those two libertines sooner or later
Even Shen Zhi didn't know, in short, he asked her to come by his side, and he went from the third-class girl to the big girl beside him.
Until the old lady arranged for Shen Zhi to pass the room, and naturally chose the maid next to him, everything was a matter of course.
Shen Zhi likes Sulan, she likes her liveliness and savageness, which is different from anyone in the Shen family. But it's just liking, just like the fan he likes, the thrush in the corridor, and the beautiful picture of Tang Yin in the study.
Maybe a little more than these, after all, this is a living being and a person, and he will talk to him and laugh with him.
When did you really care
Maybe it was the Wu family who sent a message, and the old lady said that Sulan would be disposed of. Maybe even if Sulan was pregnant with his child, the family still did not let her go.
Shen Zhi hates others to arrange for him and decide for him. The more you don't want me to do it, the more I want to do it. So he resisted, he roared, he was rambunctious, like a childish child.
Until I watched the bright red blood spread out from Sulan's skirt, as red as the red plums that were blooming in the nine cold days.
His eyes, his heart, were so stabbed, and it became a nightmare that he could not escape for the rest of his life.
"Later I found out that you weren't dead, and I thought about going there to find you."
Shen Zhi sat in the armchair, upright, with his hands on his knees, and smiled with a low eyebrow, as if he was not talking about his own business.
How did he know
Also found out by accident.
Shen Zhi was surprised when Butler Shen dealt with Shen Ping. What a big deal, as for this!
Although Shen Zhi is idle and used to wandering, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know about family affairs.
There are many silverfish in the Shen family, one more Shenping is not much, and one less Shenping is a lot. But Shen Zhi didn't take it to heart, it had nothing to do with him.
After that, it really broke out, but it was another servant of the Shen family who stabbed this deadly thing out in order to bring down Steward Shen.
Only then did Shen Zhi know that she was not dead, but was rescued.
He wanted to find her at that time, but at that time Wu Qian had an accident, and the Wu family made trouble with him and asked the family to help him save people.
Besides, what's the use of him going
As long as the Wu family is there, he can't bring Sulan back, so what are you going to do
He is a useless son of an aristocratic family. He eats and drinks from the family. If he leaves the Shen family, he may starve to death. He is not the third brother, and he can't do whatever he wants.
It was at this moment that the spark that had been ignited and extinguished rose again.
Shen Zhi regained the book of sages and sages and planned to take the exam.
He is not a fool at all, but seriously, he is extremely smart. He was praised in his childhood and will be at least a two-rank jinshi in the future. It's just that he is tired of everything in front of him, tired of studying, tired of studying for the sake of his family.
It took him three years to go from Xiucai to Jinshi.
The first time he went to Dinghai, what he saw was that a lover was finally married.
No one knew he had been there, and even he himself had no idea how he had gone back.
It was this trip that he knew that he had a son, and he knew at a glance that it was the child.
The third brother said that the child can't recognize it now, so he won't recognize it, why bother other people's happiness.
It's just that all of this has become a brand, deeply engraved in his heart, I am afraid that he will never forget it for a lifetime.
…
"I once asked myself, what would I do if I did it again? I don't think I would waste those few years, maybe one step ahead of him. But then I think about it, Wu's married and entered the door, even if one step earlier What's the use?"
Shen Zhi was still laughing, but Zhao Di covered her mouth and cried.
She didn't know why she was crying, but her face was wet.
It shouldn't be like this. Before she came, she told herself that she would definitely scold him severely. Since it was useless at the beginning, what should she do now
She will definitely use the most vicious language to scold him and dig his wounds fiercely.
Only after meeting did she realize that she didn't actually hate him.
Seriously, in the past, she liked this man, and liked this man who used bohemianism to cover up his innocence. She said that the sixth young master was cynical and self-willed. In fact, he was transparent and soft-hearted.
If it's not too transparent, why should it be cocooned and trapped for a lifetime.
"Actually, if you don't come here today, we have already planned to leave. If the child doesn't know, don't tell him." After saying that, Shen Zhi sighed and stood up.
"It's enough to know you're doing well. Actually, I know you've been doing well."
Shen Zhi walked out the door slowly, he tried to make himself light, but his steps were heavy.
"Six young masters—"
He turned his head, she didn't cry anymore, just looked at him with red eyes.
"I hope you are happy and safe."
He hummed and nodded with a smile. At that moment, Zhao Di seemed to see it again—that year, the lotus flower was in full bloom, and the canoe was light. He was standing on the bow of the boat, and she was sitting in the boat.
He turned back and smiled at her, as if breaking through the clouds and seeing the sun.
…
When Zhao Di woke up, Shen Zhi was no longer there.
Shen Ping walked in.
"Are you all right?"
Zhao Di returned to her senses, smiled and nodded, as if sighing and sighing again.
"Then let's go back."
"Um."
…
The sound of the car was shimmering, and the carriage shook lightly.
Shen Fu, who had been looking at his brother, finally sighed and reached out and patted his shoulder.
It is comfort, it is acquiescence, and it also means that this matter will not be mentioned in the future.
But at the same time, he was also a little dazed. After returning, what should he do
It's not that something big happened in Shanxi, he won't come back in such a hurry, what should have come finally came, but this trip came back without success.
Just then, a low voice came from outside.
"how?"
"There is someone over there, it seems to be a member of the Xue family." The entourage outside said.
Shen Fu lifted the curtain of the car, and saw a person and a horse on the hillside not far away, looking here from a distance.
It is Wang Wei.
Shen Zhi naturally saw it too.
His eyes stopped on the young man.
This is his son.
A sense of pride filled his chest.
"But you want to go over and talk?"
Shen Zhi shook his head: "No."
The carriage continued to move forward, until finally it could no longer see each other.
…
"Go see?"
Wang Wei nodded.
"It's good to see him, he's not a bad person." Zhao Di said with a little sigh.
Wang Wei did not speak.
Zhao Di sighed, and then looked up at her son: "When are you leaving? Mother help you prepare your luggage."
Since Wang Wei became an adult, he has never stayed in one place for too long, Zhao Di is very clear.
"I won't leave for the time being, I will stay with my mother and father."
Zhao Di raised her head in surprise, her eyes were red, but she smiled.
…
In Xia County, Shanxi, Shen Fu and the others did not dare to stop all the way, and hurried back.
When he arrived at the door of the Shen residence, the door was closed, as cold as ever.
Shen Fu was anxious and hurried into the mansion. Before he could sit down, he asked about what he said in the previous letter.
"The third master is fine, the Fang family didn't make trouble."
Shen Fu was surprised and surprised.
"Someone from the Xue family came to visit our mansion. In front of the Xue family, what kind of thing is the Fang family? Did the third master accomplish that?"
After listening to Shen Fu, he was surprised, and his heart was full of five flavors.